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THE ROLE OF THE TRANS-SPECTATOR IN DE(s)FIGURATION. PARTICIPATORY ART AND THE POLITICS OF SPECTATORSHIP
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My paper and instrumental theater piece explore the ways in which the binary norms of performance can be effectively questioned and replaced with an exercise of reflection on alternatives to normed approaches to performance.With De(s)Figuration, I propose to create a performance environment in which messages are no longer conveyed via traditional structures to traditional audiences. Instead, a community is created which engages in a social, rather than purely artistic, performance. The relationship between the performer(s) and the audience breaks binaries like subject-object or observer-observed. The initial audience gradually becomes a later audience. These later audiences are new and, most importantly, uninformed. In contrast with initial audiences, whose presence at a performance is driven by the objective of documentation, an uninformed audience cannot be “driven” in any direction. In the performance, this new audience becomes a tool with a spontaneous voice and opinion of its own, in the given moment and place of the performance.
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